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    London. British Library, Add MS 41997
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Apologia de Barbis (The Defence of Beards) that Burchard (d. 1163), Cistercian Abbot of Bellevaux wrote for
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    London. British Library, Burney MS 326
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    • The manuscript appears to have been preserved at an English university college and used for study during
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 94
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    • f. 205v is blank].Decoration: 16 large initials in red, green and yellow with arabesque decoration, for
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra C VIII
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    • early modern period.Contents: ff. 4r-37v: an illustrated copy of Prudentius's Psychomachia with titles for
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Galba E IV
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    London. British Library
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    • [f. 184v is blank].Decoration:See Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff. 1-186 and Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187-224
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 658
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    • This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of
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    London. British Library, Add MS 18043
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • It also contains songs for the liturgy (canticles), a litany of saints, including St Remaclus, the founder
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian B XI
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • 125v, 126v, 129v, 130v, 131v, 132v, 138r, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 143v, 144v are blank].Decoration:See
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A VIII
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    London. British Library
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    • Decoration:See separate parts.
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    London. British Library, Cotton MS Otho D VIII
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    • part of the manuscript (ff. 8-173) contains a Passionary or Legendary (featuring the lives of saints for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 4967
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    • Decoration:See Harley MS 4967, ff. 1-76 and ff. 77-193.
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 235
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    • f. 213v: A prayer to the Virgin Mary for help after death, beginning ‘fac mecum domina clementissima
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 91
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    • The main part of this manuscript consists of a Passionale, a collection of lives of saints for liturgical
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    London. British Library, Stowe MS 57
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • Instructions for the pronunciation of letters (f. 5r). ff. 5v-155r: A compendium of biblical world history
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    London. British Library, Egerton MS 2627
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • ), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2767
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • The scribe has copied a recipe for making wax after the explicit: 'Uncia caerae colligit in futura aeris
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    London. British Library, Royal MS 12 D IV
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    • This manuscript was perhaps the exemplar from which Royal MS 12 F II was copied, see Sharpe and Willoughby
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    London. British Library, Arundel MS 155
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    • this image includes a self-portrait of the scribe and possible artist of the Psalter, Eadwig Basan (see
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    London. British Library, Harley MS 2713
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • manuscripts together contained the entire Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Gloss on Priscianus Minor) [see
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    London. British Library, Add MS 11878
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    The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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    London. British Library
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    • A large initial 'P' for 'Praefationem', with uncoloured interlace (f. 2r).